WFORE Phonological & Phonemic Awareness 3

Question 1

A second-grade student reads slowly and makes errors, but scores well on phonemic awareness tasks. Which area should the teacher investigate next?

Accepted Answer

Phonics and decoding skills to see if sound-to-print mapping is the gap

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Re-administer phonemic awareness tasks to verify the scores

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Phonological memory, since awareness is clearly the student's strength

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Sight word memorization as the exclusive next instructional target

Question 2

Which activity would be MOST appropriate for developing phonological awareness in pre-kindergarten students?

Accepted Answer

Playing rhyming games and sorting pictures by beginning sound

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Practicing segmenting four- and five-phoneme words into individual sounds

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Completing written exercises matching phonemes to graphemes

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Reading decodable texts with CVC and CVCC word patterns

Question 3

A teacher notices a student consistently confuses /b/ and /p/ when segmenting words aloud. This most likely indicates difficulty with:

Accepted Answer

Auditory discrimination of similar phonemes

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Syllable awareness

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Print awareness and letter recognition

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Rapid automatized naming speed

Question 4

According to the Wisconsin DPI frameworks, phonemic awareness instruction should be:

Accepted Answer

Integrated with explicit phonics instruction as part of a structured literacy approach

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Delivered only to students identified as at-risk for reading difficulties

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Limited to kindergarten and discontinued once first grade begins

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Conducted exclusively through independent center activities without teacher guidance

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a phoneme manipulation task?

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Asking a student to say 'cat,' delete /k/, and add /b/ to the beginning

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Asking a student to tell how many syllables are in 'butterfly'

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Asking a student to identify which word in a list does not rhyme

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Asking a student to clap along to the beats in a nursery rhyme

Question 6

A teacher uses Elkonin (sound) boxes to have students push a chip into a box for each phoneme in a word. This strategy primarily develops:

Accepted Answer

Phoneme segmentation

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Syllable blending

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Onset-rime recognition

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Letter formation fluency

Question 7

Which statement about the relationship between phonological awareness and reading is most accurate?

Accepted Answer

Phonological awareness is necessary but not sufficient; it must combine with phonics knowledge for skilled reading

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Phonological awareness is sufficient on its own to ensure reading proficiency

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Phonological awareness becomes irrelevant once a student learns to read fluently

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Phonological awareness only matters for students learning English as a second language